Proceedings of Meetings at the Institut Royal du Patrimoine Artistique, Brussels, Belgium, September 21–24, 1987

The fifteen papers in this volume focus on treatments of western European tapestries and ecclesiastical embroideries, mostly from the Renaissance period, although one work, a liturgical sandal, dates back to the twelfth century, while the pilaster panels from Broni originated as recently as the 1740s.

Some of the papers present general concerns, such as the development of a comprehensive conservation program for textiles at the Metropolitan Museum of Art or the importance of compiling a thorough technical report. Most offer treatments of important textiles as case studies in the state of the art of textiles conservation.

• Forward
  Luis Monreal
• Summary of the Discussions
  Liliane Masschelein-Kleiner
• The Conservation of Embroideries at the Institut Royal du Patrimoine Artistique
  Juliette De boeck, Vera Vereecken, and Tatiana Reicher
• The Restoration of the Antependium of the Musée Paul Dupuy in Toulouse
  Mechthild Flury-Lemberg
• The Burgundian Vestments
  Rotraud Bauer
• Three Embroidered Pilaster Panels from the Church of San Pietro at Broni
  Francesco Pertegato
• Restoration of a Seventeenth-Century Chasuble at the Musée Historique des Tissus in Lyons
  Marie Schoefer and Eric Houpeaux
• The Restoration of a Twelfth-Century Liturgical Sandal at the Musée Historique des Tissus in Lyons
  Marie Schoefer and Denise Lestoquoit
• Second Sight: Further Investigation into the Construction of Ecclesiastical Embroideries and Tapestries
  Stephen Cousens
• Conservation Maintenance of Tapestries at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1987
  Nobuko Kajitani
• Tapestries: Conservation and Original Design
  Karen Finch
• Conservation of a Fifteenth-Century Tapestry from Franconia
  André Brutillot
• The Tapestries of the Sala dei Duecento in the Palazzo Vecchio
  Loretta Dolcini
• Gluttony and Avarice: Two Different Approaches
  R. Bruce Hutchison
• Two Case Histories: A Seventeenth-Century Antwerp Tapestry and an Eighteenth Century English Soho Tapestry
  Ksynia Marko
• The Conservation/Restoration of the Sixteenth-Century Tapestry The Gathering of the Manna
  Yvan Maes
• The Treatment of Two Sixteenth-Century Tapestries at the lnstitut Royal du Patrimoine Artistique
  luliette De boeck, Michelle De Bruecker, Chantel Carpentier, and Kathrijn Housiaux